#polygala paucifolia

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Fringed polygala and a tree shadow, May 2018.

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Fringed Polygala Polygala paucifolia

A beautiful little flower from Tioga, Pennsylvania

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Underfoot in the woods yesterday. Mosses, mushrooms, wildflower leaves (fringed polygala, pink lady slipper), partridge berry, hemlock seedling, fallen leaves, and a few more smallish things.

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Fringed polygala! I love them. Related to the beautiful blue common and chalk milkworts in the UK but with a hot pink color like no other spring flowers. They bloom around my birthday every year. 💖

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Fringed polygala! A wonderful native wildflower. Unlike most woodland spring ephemerals its flowers are an almost unnaturally bright color. I love it a lot, partly because it’s always in bloom on my birthday and partly because, well, tiny hot pink airplanes with propellers—what’s not to like?

When I saw two of its tiny blue relatives in the U.K. It felt like greeting the cousins of an old friend.

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Spring wildflowers: fringed polygala and bluets. Just weeks away.

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Yay! \o/

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Woodland wildflowers: fringed polygala and bluets.